Psychology: Recent submissions

Whole-organism performance capacity is thought to play a key role in sexual selection,through its impacts on both intrasexual competition and intersexual mate choice. Based on data from elite sports, several studies have ...

The population of older adults is increasing across the globe; this
growth is predicted to continue into the future. Most older adults prefer to live
in their own home, but many live alone without immediate support. ...

Objective: Informal caregivers of people with dementia develop their own beliefs about the condition, referred to as Dementia Representations (DRs), as they try to make sense of the changes they are observing. The first ...

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study are to investigate how different levels of functional ability relate to quality of life, well-being and satisfaction with life, conceptualised as reflecting capability to 'live well', ...

Working memory training has been shown to improve performance on untrained
working memory tasks in typically developing children, at least when compared to nonadaptive training; however, there is little evidence that it ...